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A space tower is a tower that would reach outer space.To avoid an immediate need for a vehicle launched at orbital velocity to raise its perigee, a tower would have to extend above the edge of space (above the 100 km Kármán line), [26] but a far lower tower height could reduce atmospheric drag losses during ascent.
Hopper, a prototype test vehicle for the SpaceX Starship; Hopper balloon, a kind of ultralight hot air balloon; Hopper barge, a kind of barge; Hopper car, a type of railway freight car; Gravity wagon, or slant wagon, a type of wagon that is essentially a hopper; used in agriculture; Space hopper, a toy: a ball with handles for bouncing on
The alternative VTO Hopper variant was designed for vertical take-off, being launched conventionally via an expendable launch system. [6] It featured a relatively traditional slender missile -like body but differed in the presence of a small delta wing at a 45-degree leading edge sweep and a central vertical stabilizer arrangement.
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The Mark 41 vertical launching system (Mk 41 VLS) is a shipborne missile canister launching system which provides a rapid-fire launch capability against hostile threats. [1] The vertical launching system (VLS) concept was derived from work on the Aegis Combat System .
Apollo 16 LM Orion on the lunar surface, 1972 DC-XA landing in 1996 A Falcon 9 first stage performing a vertical landing, 2016. Vertical takeoff, vertical landing (VTVL) is a form of takeoff and landing for rockets. Multiple VTVL craft have flown. A notable VTVL vehicle was the Apollo Lunar Module which delivered the first humans to the Moon.
A vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft is one that can take off and land vertically without relying on a runway. This classification can include a variety of types of aircraft including helicopters as well as thrust-vectoring fixed-wing aircraft and other hybrid aircraft with powered rotors such as cyclogyros/cyclocopters and gyrodynes .
The propellant tanks on Starship are separated by a common bulkhead, similar to the ones used on the S-II and S-IVB stages on the Saturn V rocket. [25] [26] While Block 2 vehicles use an elliptical dome, [27] the common and forward domes of the Block 1 design were more conical. [28]